Vim - yank from current cursor position till beginning of line

Question

in VIM, I understand that we can do a yank till the end of line using y$ but if e.g. my text is abcdefg and my cursor is at 'g' and I enter y^ the line will be copy without the g. My idea is to copy the whole line without the line break, any similar action will do.

Answer 1

0y$$ - copy the line without line break and move cursor back to the end

Answer 2

Making it a visual selection and then yanking that includes the character under the cursor:

v0y

Answer 3

If all the characters are indeed together and conform to a "vim sentence", you could use visual selection for the sentence object. A sentence in this case would match abcdefg even if that is not starting at the beginning of a line and it will not include the line ending:

visy

If you want to include trailing whitespace you would use a instead of i (mnemonic for "inside"):

vasy

The only problem with this approach (which may be what you do not want) is that it will not include leading whitespace. So if you have something like:

    abcdefg

The selection will not include the leading chunk of whitespace, just abcdefg.